My usage is pretty much: listen to music, use (Google) calendar, texting, FaceTime.
Any surfing is plain doom scrolling and not productive.
Recommendations for me? Analog/simpler substitutes?
For ppl that has gone down this path - how do you feel now?
That said I treat my phone mostly like a phone. I have my calls and texts whitelisted. If you're not in my contact list, the phone won't ring or ding. Then if I hear it ring, I know it's someone I know.
I remove most of the apps on my phone and keep it on my desk at all times. No different than a phone you would have hanging on a wall. I treat it the same, so I don't feel the need to really "use" it.
I will take my phone with me when I go places, and use it for music or maps in the car, but because I mostly treat it as a phone, I don't really see it as anything other than that.
When I started doing this I was admittedly pretty bored, but over time I just found other things to do and am never bored now. You just get used to it. Humans are pretty adaptable.
iOS has Screen Time, which allows you to set limits on how much you can use an app. I'm sure there is some equivalent on Android.
I made the mistake of purchasing FTL (a game) and had to add a Screen Time rule for it. :)
With Twitter in particular, I don't know a better way to find artists, writers, and podcasts. I have never enjoyed Twitter less than I do now, but it is unfortunately the best way I currently know. I guess it's time to start digging.
It worked great. I sometimes just don't know what to even look at on my phone. It's as exciting as an old flipphone.
That took care of the impulse. Beyond that, it's just a matter of self-discipline.
All that being said, I work on a computer all day long. I am in front of the computer all day and do a fair bit of "time wasting" there.
I'd be totally content to replace my physical phone, with a virtual one on a computer, provided I could make calls and send/receive text messages. Maybe I need to look into Google Voice...